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accessible
CIDE DICTIONARY
accessible, a. [L. accessibilis, fr. accedere: cf. F. accessible. See Accede.].
- Easy of access or approach; approachable; as, an accessible town or mountain, an accessible person. [1913 Webster]
- Open to the influence of; -- with to. Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- Obtainable; to be got at. [1913 Webster]"The best information . . . at present accessible." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
accessible, adj. (often foll. by to)
1 that can readily be reached, entered, or used.
2 (of a person) readily available (esp. to subordinates).
3 (in a form) easy to understand.
1 that can readily be reached, entered, or used.
2 (of a person) readily available (esp. to subordinates).
3 (in a form) easy to understand.
Derivative
accessibility n. accessibly adv.
Etymology
F accessible or LL accessibilis (as ACCEDE)
THESAURUS
accessible
adaptable, affirmed, all-around, amenable, announced, approachable, at hand, attainable, attendant, available, broadcast, brought to notice, candid, circulated, come-at-able, common knowledge, common property, communicative, convenient, conversable, current, declared, demonstrative, diffused, disseminated, distributed, effusive, employable, expansive, extroverted, findable, frank, free, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued, getatable, gettable, gossipy, handy, immanent, immediate, impressionable, in circulation, in print, in view, indwelling, influenceable, inherent, made public, malleable, movable, newsy, obtainable, of all work, on board, on call, on deck, on hand, on tap, open, open to, open-minded, openable, operative, outgoing, outspoken, penetrable, permeable, persuadable, persuasible, pervious, plastic, pliable, pliant, practicable, present, proclaimed, procurable, propagated, public, published, reachable, ready, receptive, reported, responsive, securable, self-revealing, self-revelatory, sociable, spread, stated, suasible, suggestible, susceptible, swayable, talkative, telecast, televised, to be had, to hand, unconstrained, unhampered, unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestricted, unreticent, unsecretive, unshrinking, unsilent, unsuppressed, usable, versatile, weak, within call, within reach, within sightROGET THESAURUS
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Facility
N facility, ease, easiness, capability, feasibility, flexibility, pliancy, smoothness, plain sailing, smooth sailing, straight sailing, mere child's play, holiday task, cinch, smooth water, fair wind, smooth royal road, clear coast, clear stage, tabula rasa, full play, disencumbrance, disentanglement, deoppilation, permission, simplicity, lack of complication, easy, facile, feasible, easily managed, easily accomplished, within reach, accessible, easy of access, for the million, open to, manageable, wieldy, towardly, tractable, submissive, yielding, ductile, suant, pliant, glib, slippery, smooth, on friction wheels, on velvet, unembarrassed, disburdened, unburdened, disencumbered, unencumbered, disembarrassed, exonerated, unloaded, unobstructed, untrammeled, unrestrained, at ease, light, at home with, quite at home, in one's element, in smooth water, skillful, accustomed, easily, readily, smoothly, swimmingly, on easy terms, single-handed, touch and go.Possibility
N possibility, potentiality, what may be, what is possible, compatibility, practicability, feasibility, practicableness, contingency, chance, V, be possible, stand a chance, admit of, bear, render possible, put in the way of, Adj, possible, in the cards, on the dice, in posse, within the bounds of possibility, conceivable, credible, compatible, likely, practicable, feasible, performable, achievable, within reach, within measurable distance, accessible, superable, surmountable, attainable, obtainable, contingent barely possible, marginally possible, just possible, possible but improbably, (improbable), theoretically possible, Adv, possibly, by possibility, perhaps, perchance, peradventure, maybe, may be, haply, mayhap, if possible, wind and weather permitting, God willing, Deo volente, D, possible, in the cards, on the dice, in posse, within the bounds of possibility, conceivable, credible, compatible, likely, practicable, feasible, performable, achievable, within reach, within measurable distance, accessible, superable, surmountable, attainable, obtainable, contingent barely possible, marginally possible, just possible, possible but improbably, (improbable), theoretically possible, possibly, by possibility, perhaps, perchance, peradventure, maybe, may be, haply, mayhap, if possible, wind and weather permitting, God willing, Deo volente, D, V, as luck may have it, misericordia Domini inter pontem et fontent, the glories of the Possible are ours, anything is possible, in theory possible, but in practise unlikely, possibility, potentiality, what may be, what is possible, compatibility, practicability, feasibility, practicableness, contingency, chance, V, be possible, stand a chance, admit of, bear, render possible, put in the way of, Adj, possible, in the cards, on the dice, in posse, within the bounds of possibility, conceivable, credible, compatible, likely, practicable, feasible, performable, achievable, within reach, within measurable distance, accessible, superable, surmountable, attainable, obtainable, contingent barely possible, marginally possible, just possible, possible but improbably, (improbable), theoretically possible, Adv, possibly, by possibility, perhaps, perchance, peradventure, maybe, may be, haply, mayhap, if possible, wind and weather permitting, God willing, Deo volente, D, possible, in the cards, on the dice, in posse, within the bounds of possibility, conceivable, credible, compatible, likely, practicable, feasible, performable, achievable, within reach, within measurable distance, accessible, superable, surmountable, attainable, obtainable, contingent barely possible, marginally possible, just possible, possible but improbably, (improbable), theoretically possible, possibly, by possibility, perhaps, perchance, peradventure, maybe, may be, haply, mayhap, if possible, wind and weather permitting, God willing, Deo volente, D, V, as luck may have it, misericordia Domini inter pontem et fontent, the glories of the Possible are ours, anything is possible, in theory possible, but in practise unlikely.For further exploring for "accessible" in Webster Dictionary Online